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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #58 for the week September 16th - September 22th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

We are now one week from the beta release of 7.10 and have just entered beta freeze.

During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team [1], so if you have fixes which are important to get in, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to universe require a manual shove, but are not subject to release management approval.

Issues which are important for the beta release will be tracked by the release team here:

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-September/000341.html

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

(shorten as needed) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-September/002270.html

Launchpad 1.1.9 Released

* New "remote" branches: register a remote branch if you want

  • Launchpad to monitor it and link to its code-browser but you don't want Launchpad to import the branch itself. Ideal for security related branches.

* bzr+ssh is now the recommended way to upload a branch to

  • Launchpad. sftp is still available.

* We've updated the PPA terms of service to allow for a wider

  • range of free and open licences.

* You can now search for Incomplete bugs based on whether

  • they've had a response or not.

* If you add a bug watch in an external tracker that Launchpad

  • doesn't already know about, you can add the new bug tracker at the same time.

* Upstream projects now have a view to show all bugs that need

  • to be forwarded to that project from a distribution.

* All of a project's translation files are downloadable in a

  • single tarball.

* KDE plurals and context strings are now supported in

  • translation imports and exports.

There's plenty more in this release. Read on for details and subscribe to the Launchpad News blog to read about more about these new features:

http://news.launchpad.net/

General Launchpad =================

* Milestone overview pages now show the total number of bugs an

  • blueprints targeted against that milestone. (Bug 129815)

* "Show all teams" on the project overview page now correctly

  • links to the teams overview page. (Bug 114394)

* When Launchpad is offline, you will now be able to see if it

  • is offline for maintenance or offline unexpectedly. (Bugs 121828 and 125232)

* The Launchpad Terms of Service, PPA Terms of Service and the

Distribution management (Soyuz) ===============================

* PPA uploads no longer trigger an email to the package maintainer.

  • The person who uploaded the package will still receive an email. (Bug 136418)

* PPA uploads no longer incorrectly close bugs associated with the

  • original package in the primary Ubuntu archive. (Bug 137767)

* Packages in team PPAs now show which team member uploaded the

  • package. (Bug 136343)

* Soyuz no longer performs the obsolete bzip2 dpkg pre-depends check

  • when uploading packages that use bzip2 decompression. (Bug 131032)

* Files from PPA packages that are superseded and subsequently

  • marked as pending removal will now be removed automatically. (Bug 128126)

* Source packages no longer require "debian/copyright". (Bug 134567) * Source package build pages now default to showing all builds,

  • instead of only showing those currently building. (Bug 92960)

* PPA acceptance and rejection emails now use PPA-specific wording.

  • Previously, they shared the same wording as emails for uploads to Ubuntu. Specifically, the upload email no longer thanks the user for their contribution to Ubuntu and the rejection email now directs the user to launchpad-users if they want to query the rejection. (Bugs 136406 and 137661)

* The status message for successfully built packages now also shows

  • that package's current queue status - i.e. NEW, ACCEPTED or REJECTED. (Bug 32405)

* Launchpad bugs that are identified in a package's changelog with

  • the format "LP: #n" are now automatically linked to that bug's report. (Bug 116309)

* The PPA Terms of Service now allow for licences approved by the

  • Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, Open Source Initiative and the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Code Branch Management (Code Hosting) =====================================

* In addition to hosted and mirrored branches, there is now a new

  • "remote" branch type. Remote branches are tracked by Launchpad but the branch's code is not mirrored or hosted by Launchpad. It's also now possible to add a hosted branches through Launchpad's web interface, as well as by pushing the branch to Launchpad. (Blueprints branch-creation-refactoring and remote-branches)

* Mirrored branch pages now show when the branch was last mirrored

  • and when the next mirroring will happen. (Bug 74031)

* Revisions shown on the branch overview page now link directly to

  • codebrowse to show the diff for that revision. The formatting of the revision details makes sure that the revision number is no longer partially obscured under the portlets for branches that have many revisions.

    Example: https://code.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk (Bug 133983)

* bzr+ssh is now the recommended way to upload branches to

  • Launchpad. Branch pages now show a bzr+ssh upload URL, rather than sftp. However, branches can still be uploaded using sftp. (Bug 133599)

* Importing a Subversion repository's trunk branch whose name does

  • not end in the word 'trunk' is now possible. (Bug 130883)

* The code hosting FAQ now includes a link to a help page explaining

* Users are now able to create bug-branch links from the branch

  • index page. Previously users were only able to link bugs and branches from the bug page. (Bug 43808)

* A branch's owner can now delete that branch whether or not it has

  • revisions. This applies only to branches that have no other references, such as subscribers, links to bugs and blueprints, or references in branch merge proposals. Previously, branches with revisions could not be deleted. (Bug 137658)

* Users can now see a listing of all branches in a project group.

* Clicking "Browse code" on a branch's page now shows the code

  • browser's "files" page rather than the "changes" page. The "changes" page is still available through the link at the top of the code browse page. (Bug 134192)

Bug Tracker ===========

* Users can now specify binary package names on the global bug

  • reporting page. (Bugs 117055 and 121242)

* "Incomplete" has been replaced with "Incomplete (with response"

  • and "Incomplete (without response) on the advanced bug search

    page. Existing URLs using the Incomplete status will continue to work. (Bug 50663)

* Unassigned bugs that have "Incomplete" status for 60 days, in a

  • particular context, will now be automatically set to "Invalid". Anyone with permission to change the bug's status will still be able to do so. If a comment is made on the bug, it will not automatically flip back to "Incomplete" status. Any bug watches linked to the bug will continue to synchronise their status with that of the upstream bug. (Bug 91925)

* When adding a bug watch, if Launchpad doesn't recognise the

  • external bug tracker it will ask if you want to register the new tracker at the same time. (Bug 4592)

* The statuses of bug watches tracking bugs in Roundup trackers are

  • now correctly synchronised. (Bug 67102)

* Bugwatches are now compatible with more instances of the Mantis

  • bug tracker. Most significantly this includes the ALSA bug tracker. (Bug 134309)

* Entering an assignee on the advanced bug search form now

  • automatically selects the correct radio button. (Bug 74443)

* If an attachment is deleted from an otherwise empty comment that

  • comment will not be displayed. (Bug 126224)

* Upstream projects now have a view to show all bugs that need to be

  • forwarded to that project from a distribution. (Bug 125788)

* Short quoted passages and python interpreter output are no longer

  • collapsed in messages. (Bugs 127879 and 128657)

* On bug report pages, expanding an individual bug context shows the

  • latest package version for that context. (Bug 134220)

Answer Tracker ==============

* Short quoted passages and python interpreter output are no longer

  • collapsed in messages. (Bugs 127879 and 128657)

* Question email notifications now include a Reply-To address that

  • makes it clear that any replies to that notification will be published as a response in Launchpad. (Bug 134587)

* Users can now specify binary package names when editing questions.

  • (Bug 138409)

Translations ============

* You can now download the complete translations for a product as a

  • single tarball. (Bug 82721)

* Translations pages have been further optimised to reduce

  • timeouts. (Bug 30602)

* A project's translation overview page now shows translations from

  • the main development focus instead of defaulting to the first template imported. (Bug 118663)

* KDE translation credits now have a "Launchpad Contributions"

  • header. (Bug 133817)

* The "See import queue" link in the "Actions" menu on the

  • +translations page previously caused an error. This has been fixed. (Bug 135838)

* Templates with KDE-style plurals and context strings can now be

  • correctly imported and translated. When exporting .po files from a KDE-style template, you can choose to create either a standard or KDE-style .po file. (Bugs 3990 and 46982)

Launchpad privacy policy

Today, we have introduced a privacy and data retention policy that covers your relationship with Launchpad. You can find it at:

https://help.launchpad.net/PrivacyPolicy

The policy describes the ways in which we use and retain data in Launchpad, including how we:

  • gather data
  • use cookies
  • collect and use data
  • allow for data removal and account closure.

This policy formalises what we already do and so is not a change to the way we use data in Launchpad. Please read the policy and send any questions to feedback@launchpad.net.

If you'd like to receive notifications of updates to the policy, please subscribe to the Launchpad News notification feed at http://news.launchpad.net/category/notifications/feed

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-September/002255.html

In The Press

http://apcmag.com/6574/replace_windows_with_linux_part_1_installing_and_updating_ubuntu

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3700666

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297501,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297509,00.html

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546509093.html

In The Blogosphere

http://seekingalpha.com/article/47486-dell-s-desktop-linux-strategy-so-far-so-good

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Hi all,

The Ubuntu-ni LoCo Team together with the Nicaraguan GNU/Linux Users Group organized our first Software Freedom Day on September 13th in Managua, Nicaragua.

Conferences

* The opening conference; "Free educational software" by the youngest members of the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team (Sharon Gómez [1] and Elkrin Mayorga [2], both 12 years old) was one of the highlights of the whole event. They presented Gcompris and TuxPaint.

* Gerald Lanzas from Ubuntu Nicaragua presented "Linux in the education". This conference had the participation (via VoIP) of Luis Sepúlveda from the Edulinux project in Chile.

* Edgar Guzman [3] (16 years old), from Ubuntu Guatemala talked about the "Linux Terminal Server Project" and presented some thin clients with Ubuntu.

* In the afternoon there were several conferences on programming languages; Aldo Villagra from Ubuntu Nicaragua with "Ruby on Rails", Celvin Rivas from Ubuntu El Salvador with "Java" and Edgar Martinez, also from Ubuntu El Salvador, with "Python". The last conference was presented by Alejandro Rodriguez, "LDAP + Postfix" from NUI Nicaragua.

* The closing event was an open discussion about technology, particulary the implementation of free and open source software in Central America.

Other activities

* We had an installfest area, distribution and burning stations, testing area with some Ubuntu computers, a multimedia area and an infoscreen.

* The first meeting of the Central American Ubuntu LoCo Teams (mini-Ubucon) was held on the same day with the participation of team members and leaders from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. We talked about the situation of the Ubuntu teams and the FOSS community in our countries and agreed to continue to work together in order to grow our communities.

Some numbers:

* +500 people attended the SFD Nicaragua 2007 * +500 Ubuntu flyers were handed out * 150 Ubuntu CDs * 20 installs of Ubuntu

We had some media exposure as well [4]

* 4 TV interviews * 5 articles in local newspapers * 2 radio interviews * links and banners in 32 Nicaraguan web sites

Photo gallery (work in progress):

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD_Nicaragua_2007

[1] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=HPIM0064&action=show [2] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=HPIM0072&action=show [3] http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/gallery/2007/SFD%20Nicaragua%202007?webnail=DSC_0521&action=show [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NicaraguanTeam/Prensa

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-September/001590.html

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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